Word: farah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee has received $150 in pledges. Other activities surrounding the fast include a film to be shown on Thursday night and a speech by Ahmed Farah, an Oxfam field worker from Somalia. A discussion on the plight of East Africa in the Kennedy School Forum is slated for that week...
...Tito. The Shah had expressed the desire for "a very simple funeral." But Sadat insisted that he be buried with military honors. Egypt's President skirted a potential boycott by announcing that no other national leaders would be invited. In the end, alongside the Shah's widow Farah and their four children, the only foreign dignitaries who attended were former President Richard Nixon, exiled King Constantine of Greece, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Alfred Atherton and diplomats from Britain, France, China, Israel, Australia and Morocco. At al-Rifai Mosque, the Shah's silk-shrouded body was placed...
...Shah concluded that she could not give him a male heir (a daughter, Princess Shahnaz, is now 39). Three years later, the Shah married Soraya Esfandiari, a beautiful Iranian commoner. He divorced her in 1958, again because the union failed to produce an heir. In 1959, he married Farah Diba, then a 21-year-old architecture student in Paris. Sensitive and compassionate, Farah sought to soften the harsh policies of her husband when possible. She is the mother of his four other children: Crown Prince Reza, 19, Princess Farahnaz, 17, Prince Ali Reza, 14, and Princess Leila...
While the Shah awaited surgery, only his immediate family was allowed to see him. Empress Farah, Son Reza, 19, and Daughters Farahnaz, 17, and Leila, 10, commuted repeatedly in a black Mercedes from the sprawling quarters of the Tahra Palace. The Shah's beloved poodles were brought in, provoking startled jitters among security agents worried about noisy clashes with the stray cats that occasionally roam the hospital corridors. Sadat reappeared on Tuesday and Thursday to keep abreast personally of the Shah's condition...
...Soviet column in Bamian province northwest of Kabul. Fighting was said to be taking place in Logar province south of the capital, in Badakhshan and Takhar along the northeast frontier with the Soviet Union, in the southern city of Kandahar and in the desert wastes west of Herat and Farah. Concluded a Western observer: "The Soviet plan seems to be to secure the capital and seal the borders. If escape routes to Iran and Pakistan are cut, I am sure they are confident that eventually they will prevail over the insurgents through superior force of arms...